I got an email the other day from Didier, than a message on my facebook page from Antoine about an issue with my blog www.laurentkempe.com and my .NET portal www.techheadbrothers.com which were not redirecting correctly from laurentkempe.com and techheadbrothers.com to the ones with www in front.

So I fired up IIS manager and fixed this using the following easy way:

The other day I had to re-install my whole server which is hosting Tech Head Brothers. I had also to redo the configuration to have IIS deliver compressed content. I was quite sure to have a post on this but the only thing I could find was “Optimization of a Web Site - Using Content Expiration (IIS 6.0)”

So I started from scratch and after some issues I finally managed to have it running. I started uisng the following post from Scott Forsyth, “IIS Compression in IIS6.0” and I took over those steps from his post: